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A "Bible Revelations" Presentation - Created Nov. 2000, updated Aug. 8, 2006
End-Time Joining together of the Two Houses of Israel
This page will bring you the relevant Scriptural details and updated News and Reviews in this amazing Drama of the fulfilment of Prophecy which is taking shape right before our eyes! If the Return of Judah (the Jews) to their ancient Homeland was a Divine Miracle (which is so violently being opposed in the Middle East today), then the fulfilment of this second and final leg of Prophecy, the awakening of what was assumed until now to be "Gentile Israel", will be even more amazing! Once again, in typical Divine style, this Miracle is revealing itself in totally paradoxical style:
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Ezek. 37:15
"The Word of
YHVH was addressed to me* as follows: 'Son of Man, take a stick
and write on it, "Judah and those Israelites loyal to him:.
Take another stick and write on it, "Joseph, the wood of Ephraim and all
the House of Israel loyal to him." Join one to the other to make a
single piece of wood, a single stick in your hand. And when the
members of your nation say, 'Tell us what you mean'; say. 'The Lord
YHVH says this: I am taking the stick of Joseph ... and I am going
to put the stick of Judah with them. I shall make one stick out of
the two, and I shall hold them as one ... I am going to take the sons of
Israel from the nations where they have gone. I shall gather them
together from everywhere and bring them home to their own soil.
I shall put My Spirit in them -
... they shall no longer form two nations nor be two separate
kingdoms ... My Servant David will reign over them ... they will follow My
Observances, respect My Laws and practice them. They will live in
the Land that I gave My servant Jacob ... I shall make a Covenant of Peace
with them, an Eternal Covenant ... I shall settle My Sanctuary among them
for ever ... I shall be their God, they shall be My people. And the
nations will learn that I am YHVH the Sanctifier of Israel, when My
Sanctuary is with them for ever." (also Jer. 3:18) Note: ref. also to
the foregoing chapters in both refs.
NOTES: *
'
Both Houses were
exiled from the Land.
Each stick represents one
section of the divided Israel
God promises to re-unite
the 2 houses but only after the
ingathering - which started for Judah since World War 1. The State of
Israel (consisting of the returned House of Judah & Benjamin) was declared
in 1948 . The 10 Tribes totally lost their
Identity as they probably migrated to new countries across the globe. To
date, they have not yet been identified and has not returned to the Land of
Israel.
The re-identified 10 tribes,
will return to Israel, as Judah did. They will be re-united with
Judah and will also accept and abide by the Laws of God, which had been
protected throughout the centuries by Judah (the Jews), even in
exile.
After King Solomon (970 - 931
BCE) the ancient Kingdom of Israel split into 2 opposing sectors:
'Israel' - the Northern sector, 10 Tribes, Main City Schechem; and
'Judah' - southern kingdom, 2 Tribes, Main City Jerusalem.
720 BCE, the apostised 10 Northern
tribes conquered, deported and the land repopulated with foreigners.
Gradually lost their identity over the next 5 centuries.
587 BCE, the southern Kingdom of
Judah deported to Babylon by king Nebuchadnezzar;
after 70 year prophesied exile,
Judah (and Benjamin) return and rebuild Jerusalem.
70 CE, Jerusalem destroyed by
the Romans. Jewish survivors exiled as slaves. The next 1900 years
(to 1948) saw the gradual engulfing of the exiles across the globe into
every country and nation on earth.
Since World War 1, the Jews gradually
trickled back to Israel from across the world. The international Balfour
Declaration (1917) recognized Palestine, as the ancient Jewish Homeland.
1948 State of Israel declared.
Millions of Jews return over the next few years, many from the death camps
of Hitler and the Holocaust. Israel built up, within a decade, to
one of the strongest armies in the world and a technologically advanced
economy. Jewish population count in Israel, year 2000 - 6 million.
1980's and 90's - increasing
awareness amongst earnest Christian Bible scholars (mainly from the USA
and Western Europe) discovering their 'Hebraic' roots in an awakening which
could be the dawn of the re-identification of "The Lost House of
Israel". Increasing awakening and acceptance of, and observance
of 'Jewish' Sabbath, Festivals and other customs by individuals and small
study clusters under the common banner of 'Hebraic Roots Restoration Movement',
Sacred Name Movement and Messianic 'Jewish' Movements. Millions
of pro-Israel Christians show solidarity with Judah and call for the rejection
by Israel of the Oslo Peace Accords.
Year 2000 - Increasing
identification by individual members of the above movements, with
Judah in its 'time of distress', as world pressure and secular, leftist
Israeli powers barter Holy Land for 'Peace' with the Palestinians.
As the Battle for Jerusalem intensifies and builds up to an Armageddon
scenario, this support for Israel develops into a search by awakening
'Israel', for definite projects to realize active emigration of
'non-Jewish' settlers to the Land of Israel.
Additional reference
material
Jerusalem
- Final Countdown to Armageddon
Revealing
the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel
Other Links
A Rabbinic view on the history of the Jews versus the Return of 10-Israel
AMAZING DEVELOPMENT
TAKING PLACE IN ISRAEL
An amazing development is currently taking place
in Israel.
There are millions of persons across the world,
who believe they are from the ancient non-Jewish House of Joseph or Ephraim, from
the Northern Ten Tribes.
Biblical Prophecy is clear and emphatic, that
not only the Jews (House of Judah) would return to the Land of their forefathers
(as we have seen happening since the Balfour Declaration in 1917 and the
re-establishment of the State of Israel in 1948), but also the exiled Northern
Kingdom must return. The latter, who began assimilating into Gentile cultures
shortly after their exile to Assyria in 722 BCE, will in the 'End
Time' be re-identified and re-united with the House of Judah into
one nation, according to these Prophecies (Ezek. 37:15).
The Tikkun (or repair) of this 3,000-year old
unreconciled rift between these two families have been addressed by several Messianic visionaries
who came to Jerusalem since the year 2000, believing that they personally had the Divine
Mandate to enter into negotiations with the Rabbis of Jerusalem. Unfortunately, these
claiming representatives of Ephraim and Yoseph expected the Rabbis to consider such Tikkun on
their own terms and conditions, mainly to retain their non-Judah identity, which caused these
negotiations to fail miserably. In compliance with Prophetic Scripture, any such negotiations
should aim at bringing exiled 10-Israel back into line with the Original True Faith as
proclaimed and guarded by Judah throughout the ages, according to the Divine Mandate of Gen.
49:10: "The Scepter shall not depart from Judah until Shiloh come
..."
Refer
http://www.revelations.org.za/Shiloh.htm
NEW STUDY LINKING 20%
OF EUROPE TO A SINGLE MID EASTERN ANCESTOR
CNN. COM EUROPEAN WEB
PAGE reports - November 10, 2000
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Around
80 per cent of European men are descended from a single primitive hunter,
according to a new study. Researchers analysing the Y chromosome
taken from more than 1,000 men from 25 different locations in Europe
found a pattern that suggests four out of five shared a common male ancestor
about 40,000 years ago.
Peter Underhill, a senior
researcher at the Stanford University Genome Technology Center and co-author
of the study, said the research supports conclusions from archaeological,
linguistic and other DNA evidence about the settlement of Europe
by ancient peoples.
The study, co-authored by
Underhill and more than a dozen researchers from Stanford and Europe, appeared
on Friday in the journal Science.
Underhill said the researchers
used the Y chromosome in the study because its rare changes establish a
pattern that can be traced back hundreds of generations, thus helping to
plot the movement of ancient humans.
The Y chromosome is inherited
only by sons from their fathers. When sperm carrying the Y chromosome
fertilises an egg it directs the resulting child to be a male.
An X chromosome from the father allows a fertilised egg to be female.
The Y chromosome has about
60 million DNA base pairs. Changes in those base pairs happen infrequently,
said Underhill, but they occur often enough to establish patterns
that can be used to trace the ancestry of people. He said that researchers
looking at the 1,007 chromosome samples from Europe identified 22
specific markers that formed a specific pattern of change. About 80 percent
of all European males shared a single pattern, suggesting that they had
a common ancestor thousands of generations ago.
About 8,000 years ago, said
Underhill, a more advanced people, the Neolithic, migrated to Europe from
the Middle East, bringing with them a new Y chromosome pattern and a new
way of life: agriculture. About 20 percent of Europeans now
have the Y chromosome pattern from this migration.
The researcher said that
archaeological digs in European caves clearly show that before 8,000 years
ago most humans lived by gathering and hunting. After that,
there are traces of grains and other agricultural products.
The Associated Press contributed
to this report.
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Cable News Network. All Rights Reserved.
SATELLITE PHOTOS REVEAL CONFIRMATION OF EPHRAIM'S RETURN WRITTEN IN JERUSALEM MOUNTAIN FORMATIONSVendyl Jones, famous for his archaeological discoveries in Israel, published the following amazing satellite photo and confirmation of who the Land of Israel belongs to, on his Web Page http://www.vendyljones.org.il/whose_land_is_israel.htm
"This Land belongs
neither to the Jews nor the Arabs. I have a title deed here that shows
to whom it belongs." I took out a photograph of the above satellite
image and pointed out the perfect Hebrew words "Ki-Luz-HaShem-Efraiyim."
The accountant was aghast. "How did you make that?" he inquired.
When I had to explain that these were just the shadows of the
mountains and that the words were written there since the creation, he
was dumbfounded. He took the picture and showed it to everyone in the
garage.
These words can stand alone or have a combination of connotations.
The point is that the shadows form Ki, meaning because or for the sake
of. Luz can mean to turn, to coil, to bend or to twist. Luz is also
the name of the top vertebrae of the spine, sometimes called the
"resurrection bone" because it remains even after all the other bones
of a body have decomposed. Luz was the name of the place where Jacob
had his vision of the ladder reaching into heaven [Genesis 28:18-19].
Jacob called the same place Beth-El. The name Luz is formed in the
shadows precisely over the location of present-day Beth-El.
Beside and just north of Jerusalem, is that majestic, holy,
ineffable, unutterable Name of HaShem (God), YHVH. Coincidental is it not?
"Rather, only at THE PLACE that HaShem, your G-d, will choose from
among all your tribes TO PLACE HIS NAME shall you seek out His
presence and come there." [Deuteronomy 12:5] This commandment was
given to Moses 449 years before the Shechinah filled the Holy House of
Solomon in Jerusalem.
Yet, etched forever in the hills and valleys just north of
Jerusalem is the name of HaShem, YHVH, existing there since the day of
creation. Although the name of HaShem was forever written there, no
one has ever noticed His name inscribed there until our generation.
Living in the space age, HaShem has granted us the privilege of
looking down upon the earth from HIS perspective and seeing the
spectacular marvels of HIS creation.
Were this, the holy name of YHVH, the only inscription seen on the
ridges in the land of Israel, one might say that was sufficient.
Dayenu! At that moment each day, in HaShem's time, the quill of the
sun dips silently into the inkwell of shadows between the hills and
inscribes that unspeakable name YHVH on the face of the earth. "The
rocks cry out! The hills clap their hands! They leap like lambs! They
shout together!" Yet, all their sounds are inaudible and imperceptible
to the deaf ears of mankind.
The final word seen by the satellite imagery is Efraiyim, or Ephraim. It appears at the lower left, below YHVH. Just as Luz is located exactly over present-day Beth-El, which was originally called Luz, the name of Ephraim begins precisely where the borders between Benjamin and Judah on the south and Ephraim on the North were located. Ephraim is the name designating the ten northern tribes that broke away under Rehoboam. The Holy Name of the G-d of Israel forever rests between the northern and southern kingdoms. They had forsaken Him, but He never forsook them.
Source: Vendyl Jones Web Site http://www.vendyljones.org.il/whose_land_is_israel.htm
BIRTH PANGS, RESISTANCE AND CONTROVERSIES
SHOULD 'RE-IDENTIFIED ISRAEL' CONVERT TO JUDAISM?
This matter of the re-discovery and uniting of the 2 Houses is certainly coming to the fore on many fronts in the world - with disturbing effects of disharmony amongst the 2 Houses and a spirit of escapism by some of those claiming the Benefits of the "Restored One House".
Following are two contentious issues that have become prevalent within the ranks of awakening Israel believers. These differences which cause such great division and disharmony, revolve around:
- whether the re-unification of the 2 Houses of Israel would occur before or after Mashiach comes. Those who believe that the 2 estranged Houses would re-unite only after His Coming, by His own doing, maintain that would-be settlers should not 'endanger their lives' by going to Israel now, with threatening War and great tribulation so imminent. Those on the other side emphasise, that the Land and the Cause vitally need their active participation and support in the face of the world's predominantly opposing attitude.
- whether full conversion to Orthodox Judaism is required for compliance by would-be settlers who want to come to Israel. Those against such conversion, feel that they would forfeit their individual tribal identity by "joining Judah".
The first reasoning above, smacks of the same 'escapism' which underscores the 'Rapture' theory.
Why should Judah always suffer alone? Anti-Semitic 'believers' maintain that "they deserve it". On the other hand, there has of late been an increasing measure of a spirit of physical support for Judah's Biblical Mandate to "settle the Land", from amongst a section of awakening 'Israel'. As they are progressively discovering their 'Hebrew Roots", there is an increasing awareness to share in Judah's tribulations and to identify with Eretz (the Land of) Yisrael and its 'Judah' population in physically support - to be part of them in the approaching "Gog & Magog" final Tribulation. Yes, this means a preparedness to physically die with Judah, if necessary, if that is the price required to establish the Land of Promise!
This, most likely, is the Divinely intended re-uniting Process. Yes, Judah is proud and refuses spiritually motivated assistance from 'strangers'. Many centuries of persecution (even to death) of Jews by Christian forces, have left Judah highly suspicious of any support by strangers. Add to this the culturally destructive affects off centuries of zealous Christian proselytizing, historically even under the threat of death. But, imagine when Judah is forced to face the Wall in the Coming Catastrophe, and then ... in steps 'brother Yoseph and Ephraim' to support them with blood and their physical supporting presence? Imagine a 'Settlers Occupation Move' by re-awakening Israel, to claim and settle the Land - which is the only option left for Judah in the current Battle for Jerusalem, in order to reclaim the Land. They need settlers, settlers and more settlers - and those numbers simply do NOT exist within their own ranks! Not evangelizing, 'testifying settlers' (zealously striving to 'save' Judah's soul), but settlers who have subjected themselves to the otherwise highly unpopular 'Levetical' System, by physically joining Judah.
Zecharaiah 8:22,23 "And
many people and great nations will come to seek YHVH Sabaoth and to
entreat the favour of YHVH ... in those days, ten men of nations of every
language (10 Tribes?) will take a Jew by the
sleeve and say, 'We want to go with you, since we have learnt that God is
with you.'"
Surely if re-settling the
Land is a Divine Prophetic pre-requisite for the Kingdom to be set-up,
then it is illogic that only Judah will have to spill their blood, sweat and
tears to reclaim the Land from the Usurper? Is this not perhaps why
Lost Israel is to be awakened, in order to physically ('spiritually' is
an inseparable part anyway) assist Judah?
Must Judah do all? - and
Mashiach do all? - and 'Gentile-Israel' or Messianic Israel simply collect
and gloat of Divine Blessings?
When Prophecy claims that
the 2 Sticks will become ONE - we should ask: "One what?" A non-Judah
stick? A Christian stick? A Torah-by-selection-only stick?
A prejudiced stick? An opposing-of-Judah stick?
In the New Kingdom era,
which of the Mitzvot (Laws) that 'Hebraic Roots Israel' (or Messianic
Israel) today discard as 'an unnecessary burden placed on believers',
will be operating, and which will be discarded by the King in His Kingdom?
The answer should be logic,
but logic does not count with most - for it is too obvious!
Our
foundational
Scripture portion quoted above, confirms this re-unification
of the 2 Houses. It explicitly confirms that 'lost Israel' at the
time of their re-identification, will be brought back into
the Covenant.' (Ezek. 37:15-28, and specifically
verse 24, read with the foregoing ch. 36:17 onwards).
We should ask ourselves
here:
"Which
Covenant will apply to the Lost Tribes of Israel? - if not the same
Covenant as that which Judah is still under?" "Who must change
- Israel or Judah? To what? - Israel's or Judah's position?"
If Judah is still under
the Covenant and has to suffer for the re-establishment of the Kingdom
in Jerusalem, should 'Israel' then be excluded from the Final Tribulation
even after it has been brought back into the same Covenant?
WHAT gives Israel that exclusion benefit?
And all this points to the
logical conclusion that Israel's physical joining of Judah
should in fact be that re-uniting process of the 2 Houses of
Israel
Obviously, such a process
will be greatly opposed by the evil one. Logically also, such re-uniting
will be opposed both from within Judah and from within 'Israel'.
That is what
true believers should free themselves from - the inclination to resist
the "Jewish System", which is nothing short of resistance against the Torah -
the Law of God. This is 'The Gospel of the Kingdom'
which we should be proclaiming - not to Judah, but to the world out there,
who are not under the Covenant or who misinterpret the Terms and the Purpose
of this Covenant. (Refer: http://www.revelations.org.za/Gospel.htm )
Finally, let us confirm,
straight from the N.T. itself,
this essence of the 'Gospel' which Messiah established, thereby bringing
both 10-Israel (as well as the Gentiles) into physical Judah, :
Eph 2:11 (The 'Jerusalem
Bible' - Darton, Longman & Todd, London) (Adapted here with Sacred
Name restored and the Web Master's personal comments appearing in black
print):
"Do not forget, that there
was a time when you who were pagans physically, termed the Uncircumcised (that
is non-Jews) .... do
not forget that you had no (Jewish) Messiah and were excluded
from membership of Israel (so, something had
to be arranged to make you members of Israel) aliens
with no part in the Covenants with their Promises. You were
immersed in this world without Hope and without
God (of Israel) (So, you had to be reconciled,
brought into the Covenant - like Judah is - with YHVH).
But
now in YAHU'SHUAH
Messiah, you that used to be so far apart from us (the
authors of Eph.2 - i.e. Jews, Israelites), have been brought very close by the Blood of Messiah
(You
have been bought at a very high Price). For
He is the Peace (Restoration) between
us (Jews and pagans)
and
has made the two (Jews and non-Jews)
into
One (what?) and
broken down the barrier(?) which
used to keep them apart, actually destroying in His own Person the hostility
(rebellion)
caused by the rules and decrees
of the (Jewish. Levitical) Law (This
rebellion by pagans against the Law was the barrier that kept them apart
from Jews. This scripture is twisted by Grace-only's, to imply
that Messiah did away with the Law itself, rather than that He removed
the rebellion against the Law from the hearts of the receiving
pagans, as confirmed in Jer. 31:31-33 and Ezek 11: 17-21, placing His Spirit
in them, thereby instilling a love for obedience to the Law on their hearts
and minds). This was to create One Single
New Man (abiding to 'Jewish' Law)
in
Himself (Who
meticulously kept the Law) out of the two
of them (Jews and Gentiles)
and
by restoring Peace, through the Cross, to unite them both in a Single
Body (Is this Body
Christian or Jewish? If a 'Christian' Body, then He failed
miserably, because there are few, if any, Torah observant Jews in Christianity, just an unbridgeable void.
If this 'Single Body' refers to the Jewish Body, then it is confirmed by those Messianic believers,
Restoration movement, of late, who are discovering their Hebraic Roots
and who go all the way to joining up fully with the Body of Jews into ONE
Body) and reconcile them (both)
with
God. In His own person He killed the hostility (against
the Law - not the Law itself or the Body!) Through Him , both of us (Jew
and converted pagan, lost but re-identified 'Israelite')
have in
the One Spirit our Way to come to the Father. So, you (reconciled
ones)
are no longer aliens or foreigners
(non-Jews);
you are citizens like all the
Tzadikim (righteous Jews) and
part of God's Household
(12-Israel,
as represented by Judaism) (3:5) This Mystery that has now been
revealed ... was unknown to any men in past generations. It means
that pagans (non-Jews)
now
share (together with Jews and as Jews) the
same inheritance (- the inheritance was not
taken away from Jews - it is now SHARED by pagans also!). They
are part of the SAME BODY (of Judaism /12- Israel)
and
the same Promise (as
had been made unto 12-Israel of old) has been made to
them (the pagans and lost Israelites) in
Messiah, through the Good News! (that He, God in the manifested shape of
man, will sacrifice His Life in order to reconcile them into Covenant
relation with all its Divine Blessings)"
NOTE: The
Covenant Promise of Eternal Life in the Kingdom of YHVH, is based on the
Condition that the candidate for citizenship upholds the Law of YHVH (which
is the embodyment of His Divine Will - the Torah).
Is that not the basic requirement
for emigration by any government in the world? Is it unreasonable
to expect from a citizen that he/she conforms to the Law of that country?
The Ten Northern Tribes
of Israel lost its Identity for 2700 years for the very reason that they
slid into paganism, having discarded the Torah and its Instructions for
Life. They rebelled against and rejected the Divinely mandated authority
of Judah, who continued to cling to the Torah, being Divinely appointed
to be the Carriers of the Divine Oracles (Genesis 49:10, Romans 3:2;
Psalms 60:7; Matthew. 23:2 and 5:17-22).
Let us read the Scripture
to see what these Oracles were:
Acts 7:38b "...
it was he (Moses) who was entrusted with the living Oracles to pass on
to us." This
refers to the Laws, Statutes and Precepts that Moses received directly
from YHVH on Mt. Sinai with the Divine Injunction to teach the nation of Israel
accordingly. From Israel's observance of this 'System', the nations
would then know what God's Requirements are.
Paul, to whom the
conveying of the Gospel to the Gentiles (Christians) are credited, makes
an amazing statement regarding the value inherent in the "carrying of these
Oracles".
Rom. 3:1,2 ":What
then, is a Jew better off? Is there any advantage in being circumcised?
A great advantage in every way (for) first, the Jews are the people to
whom God's Oracles were entrusted."
Thus, because they were
entrusted with the Oracles, they have an advantage / it is better to be
a Jew for that reason.
Is it any wonder then, that
man's carnal inclination is opposed to the idea of subjection to the Law?
Is this not the same spirit of rejection that Adam and Eve reflected right
at the start in Paradise? Was that not the very same inclination
that Satan, through the figure of 'the snake' and being a Rebel against
YHVH and His System himself, addressed and steered them away from?
It is these Living Oracles
which the spirit of rebellion in man, knowing that it is the foundational
requirement underlying the eternal Blessings of the Divine Covenant, opposes
to this day.
Restorers of the Hebraic
Faith who have 'rediscovered' YHVH's Law - the Sabbath, Feasts, health
laws, etc. should therefore seriously question that spirit of opposition
against accepting the 'full package' of Judaism and the Oracles they carry!
Is it not still the same spirit of the Garden of Eden? Is that not
why there is such a resistance against Judaism and its 'Rabbinic' system?
Should this 'Levetical legalism' not rather be seen and accepted as the
'Key rules to abundant Life, here and hereafter', than as 'a burden of
restriction placed on believers'? Are not all rules and regulations
in the world, at some time or more often, seen as 'restrictive' on our
freedom?
These Oracles (the Law),
form the foundation of the New Covenant for YHVH states that "I
shall make a New Covenant with them - I shall write My Laws no longer on
the Tables of Stone but on their hearts - I shall put My Spirit in them,
so that they will keep My Laws and respect My Observances and put them
into practice - they
shall no longer form two nations, I shall make them One nation -
then
they shall be My People and I shall be their God"
Jer 31:33; Ezek 11:19 and 36:27.
Is there any reason left
why awakening Israel should not physically and spiritually join Judah?
In closing, please click
here and read THE
SCRIPTURAL STATEMENT underlying the Miracle of Lost Israel's re-identification
once more. It should make a lot more sense now.
For a full Scriptural
exposition of the Covenant, Click here:
Refer also:
RESISTANCE AGAINST "RABBINIC
JUDAISM"
There generally is a very great resistance amongst
Messianic Hebraic Roots Restorers and their leaders against what is labelled
"Rabbinic Judaism", "Levitical Judaism", "oral man-made laws" or "legalism". The
traditional Rabbinical Torah interpretations (Halacha) are often regarded
as "an unnecessary burden" placed on Messianic believers. In this
respect, the reasoning of these teachers are no different from the general
Christian interpretation and resistance against the Law as contained in
the Torah, much as they profess to be "Torah observant" and to distance
themselves from this Christian interpretation.
The seeds for this concept of the Laws of God "being a special burden laid
on Jews only", are sown by the NT in Acts 15 in a conference decision of
the early Messianic (Jewish) leadership when confronted by certain
Messianic believers amongst the Pharisees who insisted that Messianic
believers also keep the Laws of Moses (verse 5). In their wisdom,
and "as decided by the Holy Spirit and themselves"" (v. 29), it was
ruled by the Messianic convention that, in stead of "making things
difficult for non-Jews who turn to God" (v. 19), and in order not to
"saddle them with any burden beyond the essentials" (v.29), they
would only have to abide by some of the Mosaic Laws - and 4 categories of
these were specified (v. 20,29), i.e.
- abstaining from food sacrificed to idols
- abstaining from blood
- abstaining from the meat of strangled animals
- abstaining from fornication
Now these 4 abstentions had their roots in what is termed by the Rabbis as
the "Noachide laws which are applicable only for non-Jews who wish to observe
Torah". Without going into depths of this topic here, suffice
it to state that the publishers of BIBLE REVELATIONS find no foundation
for this reasoning in the entire Torah or Tanach (OT) itself. These
Scriptures are very clear, all over, that the entire Law System of God, as
enshrined in Torah, is intended for the Blessing and Success for all
mankind, with Judah being Divinely appointed as guardians of Torah - as "a
Light unto the nations". It should therefore also be clear (as
stated repeatedly in this Web Site and on the BIBLE REVELATIONS Forum),
that the Return of 10-Israel will be vindicated by a return to full Torah
observance. As such, the re-unification of the 2 Houses should be
firmly based on the foundations of Torah observance. It was the
rejection of Torah and of Judah's spiritual leadership, after all, which
were the main reasons why 10-Israel of old were rejected and evicted off
the Land by YHVH.
This spirit of rejection against
'Rabbinism' becomes more evident and intense when the Torah opposing
Messianic teachers
turn their vindictiveness towards the "Rabbinic writings" or "Oral Torah"
in an endeavour to 'expose' the 'errors' and 'anti-Gentile' statements in ancient
Jewish writings like the Talmud. In this way, they try to dissuade their followers
from following their new found spiritual inclination to convert and join Judaism.
In doing so, they actually side with and endorse the venomous accusations
of anti-Semites through the ages. Yet, they profess to 'love' Judah
- the Jews, or their "brothers from the 2nd House of Israel".
It would be presumptuous and vain to attempt to
disprove the existence of such derogatory remarks or teachings in certain
Jewish writings. For purposes of conveying the Divinely approved
spirit of forbearance that would be required from true believers and contenders for
the Kingdom of God, let us therefore assume and accept that these derogatory
statements do exist in the Talmud and other Jewish commentaries.
The first issue we have
to settle if we work from
this preposition, is whether this changes anything in YHVH's election
of Judaism as part of, or totally, His 'Election' of them? Did the Messiah
Himself not condemn them for many issues anyway, without ever intimating
that He totally rejects the nation which He chose to be born into?
Are these 'vile doctrines' which Judaism, according to those writings,
seem to display, any worse than those things which God disapproved of in
them throughout the ages?
If YHVH has not rejected them, how dare we?
These accusers will attempt to justify themselves
by claiming that they do not reject the Jews but 'love' them, though
their interpretations and accusations are in no degree any less anti-Jewish
in spirit, than even the most vehement anti-Semitic writings. It
conveys the same spirit of rejection than do their anti-Semitic 'revelations'.
Does that mean that YHVH wants us to overlook
Judaism's many glaring faults? No! The point is, that
if He does not reject them or smear them, how dare we? If He loves
them and blesses them in spite of their faults - why not us?
In fact, He warns: Gen. 12:3 "I will bless those who
bless you, and curse those who curse you".
As a footnote to those ever accusing
Messianics, who justify themselves by saying that they do
indeed love and bless Jews while they vehemently reject Judaism and
'Rabbinism' and much of what it entails
- please note:
- the original Hebrew text uses two different Hebrew words in the above
text, both translated as 'curse' in most popular Bible versions.
The popular verbal version of this Divine Statement, which most of us use,
almost exclusively renders 'curse' in both instances.
A review of the actual Hebrew original will show how
this Divine admonition has been watered down, in that way becoming almost
a 'license' to 'bad mouth Jews - "as long as a curse is not pronounced"!
The word selection in the original Hebrew, holds a serious reprimand for
many:
the first, meaning 'curse'
indeed - as in persecute; the second, 'mekalal'
meaning: revile, speak lightly, despise'. Thus, God will curse those
who speak lightly of Judah, or who bad-mouth Jews. The same root
word kalal is used in Gen 16:4 where it is translated
'despise', viz. Hagar despised Sarah after she Hagar) conceived by
Avraham, Sarah's husband. We are also reprimanded from not
denouncing even Satan (Jude v. 9).
Ezek chapter 20 contains the proper
guidance for us in this matter - if we wish to follow in His foot steps:
"I , YHVH, resolved to discharge My anger on them, and exhaust
My Fury against them, to destroy them ... but respect for My Own Name kept
Me from allowing it to be profaned in the opinion of the nations among
whom they were living." This Divine statement is repeated
some 5 times in the chapter, referring to various stages in Israel's history,
since Egypt, right to date and into the future. It continues:
"Go on, all of you (Israel),
worship your idols, but I swear that you will hear Me in the end.... through
you, I intend to display My Holiness for all the nations to see ... then
you will learn that I am YHVH, when I treat you as respect for My Own Name
requires and not as your wicked behaviour and corrupt actions require!"
Whether we wish to apply this Divine Statement
to the one House (10 Tribes) or to both Houses of Israel, it is pertinently
important that we leave the Judgment to Him. That we bless Judah
irrespective of whether they deserve it or not. That we stop delving
into their rejectable words, writings and attitudes. That we uphold
them to the nations (how much more to the believers of Restored Truth!!)
irrespective of their rejectable remarks, attitudes and behaviours. That
we delve for the multitude of revelatory interpretations in their traditional
writings. Yes, that we love them irrespective of all! Love
sees no harm, is patient and long-suffering, does not accredit evil
to wrongdoers! Love forgives even evil! If that were not so,
if YHVH was not the personification of this Love, then no one has any chance
whatsoever to inherit a place in His Kingdom!
It is amazing that 'Hebraic Roots Restorers',
the '2-House' proclaimers, etc. who aspire to sharing the Blessing with
Judah, refuse to follow through with conversion to Judaism all the
Way, according to YHVH's Intention of making ONE House of the two.
They persist in rather pursuing and fuelling the hatred amongst the 2 Houses
since antiquity!
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Restoration
of the Kingdom to Israel
The Sceptre shall not depart from Judah
until Shiloh comes
Are
Jews Lost without acknowledging the Messiah?
Is
the New Testament Christian or Jewish?
Should
Gentiles convert to Judaism?
Are re-identified Yosephites and
Ephraimites obliged to observe Torah?
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BRIT
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